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...President, the "most grueling ordeal" of 1964 was the threatened rail strike. In begging the railway brotherhoods to extend their strike deadline, he put on a convincing, if not especially ennobling, performance. "He pleaded beyond reason," said a labor man afterward, "for a President of the U.S." But two weeks later, with the final deadline only hours away, he was at his best. He sat down with the carriers to talk them into accepting the settlement, though he had heard that they were seven to two against it. When one management man began, "I'm just an old country...
...another, Greek rightists and leftists have long fought each other. But in 1942 two mutually suspicious Greek guerrilla detachments-one made up of E.D.E.S. nationalists and the other of E.L.A.S. Communists-joined forces long enough to give protective cover to a British demolition team that blew up a railway bridge at Gorgopotamos, 130 miles from Athens, thus halting supplies intended for transshipment to Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. In reprisal, 14 Greek hostages were executed by the Italian occupation forces. Ever since, Communists and rightists have argued about whose guerrillas deserved the greater glory at the bridge...
...survivor estimated that 4,000 Congolese were killed in Paulis-mostly the town's "intellectuals" (clerks, teachers, civil servants). "They started by killing anyone who was well-dressed," said a 27-year-old railway employee who got out alive. "In this country, the well-dressed are well-educated." As the paras tried to get the survivors out of Paulis, the Simbas followed them back to the rutted dirt airstrip where the C-130 waited. A rearguard held them off while the first planes took off, then scrambled for the last plane, which waited with its engines whining impatiently. They...
...Dutch treat will be used to rebuild Indonesia's Dutch-equipped railway system and sugar and tin industries-crippled when the flow of replacement parts from The Netherlands was halted-and to expand and improve inadequate port and airport facilities...
...Iowa, he was eligible for aid offered by Charles Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington &; Quincy Railroad, whose trust fund gave preference to youths "who come from the territory in Iowa served by the C.B. & Q. Railroad." Princeton engineering students from states served by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. can apply for a special scholarship. At N.Y.U., would-be teachers tap funds given by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard-daughter of Railroad Magnate Jay Gould, if they happen to live along railroads Gould controlled...